adjective
- Usually used with `to'. ( occurring or existing without the knowledge of)
- usage: "a crisis unbeknown to me"; "she had been ill for months, unbeknownst to the family"
- synonyms: unbeknown
adverb
- Without someone's knowledge.
- usage: "unbeknownst to me, she made all the arrangements"
- synonyms: unbeknown
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